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Company type | Private |
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Founded | 1999 |
Founders | Joe Gustafson |
Headquarters | , USA |
Key people | Greg Flynn, President and CEO Joe Gustafson, Founder & Chairman |
Website | www.brainshark.com |
Brainshark was a privately held technology company based in Waltham, Massachusetts that provided a sales enablement platform and product suite. Bigtincan acquired Brainshark in August 2021.
Brainshark provided Web-based applications and products, delivered via software as a service (SaaS), to help companies improve sales effectiveness and productivity. The company offered a sales enablement platform and product suite.[1]
The company's core product was Brainshark, a sales enablement platform that helped organizations create content used for sales training, onboarding, and coaching.[2]
Brainshark launched its coaching platform in February 2016 [3]
In October 2011, Brainshark released SlideShark,[4] a mobile app for the Apple iPad[5] and Apple iPhone[6] that lets users properly display PowerPoint presentations on iOS devices.[7][8][9][10]
Brainshark (often stylized as BRAINSHARK) was used in a wide range of industries, including insurance,[11] healthcare,[12] financial services,[13] technology,[14] non-profit,[15] and others for training,[16] sales and marketing,[17] channel,[18] and corporate communications.[12]